For the past 30 years I have taught at a fairly large New England prep school in the Boston suburbs with an internationally diverse student body—co-ed—and both a boarding and day population.
Some kinds of art bear very close examination. Take for example the enormous triptychs of Hieronymous Bosch, full of fantastic but clearly rendered figures human and demonic.
David Ehrlich’s short stories, some of which describe the lives of both openly identified and closeted Israeli gay men, are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and sometimes both.